The Politics of Migration

by Robin Cohen, Zig Layton-Henry

Overview

The Politics of Migration is an authoritative collection which includes the most important articles and papers that document and analyse the political impact and consequences of migration since World War II. It assesses the impact of migration on class conflict and politics in the host country and the strategies adopted by the state to manage the political activities and demands of new ethnic minority communities. It also covers the rise of racist politics, especially electoral support for anti-immigrant far right parties. Special emphasis is placed on the politics of citizenship and political engagement as the new settlers adopt political strategies in order to combat exclusion, racism and oppression and to achieve recognition and legitimacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781858980140
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	02/11/1998
Series:	The International Library of Studies on Migration series , #5
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Robin Cohen, Professor of Development Studies and Director, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK and Zig Layton-Henry, former Professor of Politics and Director, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick, UK

Editorial Reviews

’The politics of migration is an understated dimension of international migration but, perhaps, over the long haul the most important. Immigration affects politics in multiple ways: it introduces potential new actors into a political system, links at least two different polities, and can have an important effect on political institutions and forces on the homeland and the receiving country. Study of the politics of migration was rare until the 1990s. The volume does a good job of bringing together key pieces from the1970s and 1980s.’
- Mark J. Miller, Journal of World History

From the Publisher

Facsimiles of 16 essays published from the 1970s to the 1990s offer a variety of scholarly views on migration since World War II. Among them are transnational migration as a small window on the diminished autonomy of the modern democratic state, the function of labor immigration in western European capitalism, non-white minority access to the political agenda in Britain, immigration and refugee policy in the US, immigration and changes in the French party system, and an aggregate data analysis of the National Front vote in the 1977 Greater London Council elections. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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